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Beetle

noun

Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings.

A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing. Synonym: mallet.

verb

(past & past part. beetled; pres. part. beetling)

Be suspended over or hang over. Synonym: overhang.

Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle. "They beetled off home"

Beat with a beetle.

adjective

Jutting or overhanging. Synonym: beetling.

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"Beetle" Quotes from Famous Books

... hare, which was running for dear life and was at her wits' end to know where to turn for help. Presently she espied a Beetle, and begged it to aid her. So when the Eagle came up the Beetle warned her not to touch the hare, which was under its protection. But the Eagle never noticed the Beetle because it was so small, seized the hare and ate her up. The Beetle never forgot this, and used to keep an eye on the Eagle's ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... finished their hurried breakfast, Ben Tackers appeared, accompanied by two vicious looking hounds, whose red eyes and beetle brows made the boys hesitate to approach ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin

... rubbish to foolish buyers. The great buildings on the right of us, the Inns and the School Board place—as it was then—Somerset House, the big hotels, the great bridges, Westminster's outlines ahead, had an effect of grey largeness that reduced him to the proportions of a busy black beetle in a ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... that night, she sees a burnished beetle on the ground before her, sparkling along the dust as it makes its slow way to a tuft of maize, and puts out her foot and kills it. The country girl recalls a superstition connected with these bright beetles—that if one was killed, the sun, "his friend ...

— Browning's Heroines • Ethel Colburn Mayne

... by countless other sounds, which came through the open window,—the croaking of frogs and tree-toads, the chirping and whistling of insects and reptiles, while I could see a party of fireflies glistening among the curtains of the bed. Now and then a huge beetle would make its way into the room, and go buzzing about round and round, till to my infinite relief it darted out of the window! But the noises and the stings of the mosquitoes drove sleep from my eyelids. Presently I heard ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

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